Report: Speed up drug development with artificial intelligence - Roll Call

Artificial intelligence-based tools can soon begin assisting patients with chronic conditions, the National Academy of Medicine said, describing some of the emerging applications of such technologies both for consumers and health care providers. New devices could help patients with heart disease, diabetes or depression, and with taking their medications, modifying their diet, wound care and injections, the academy said. Health experts also can use data drawn from wearable devices such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, cameras and smartphones for monitoring patients' health and predicting risks, the academy said. The report said startup companies with a focus on health and medicine have raised $4.3 billion to develop so-called smart clothing such as bras that can predict breast cancer risk and other clothes that can assess cardiac and lung conditions based on movement. In hospitals, clinicians are testing whether artificial intelligence technologies would allow them to personalize chemotherapy dosing -- a kind of precision medicine that's tailored to each patient.